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Saturday, November 7, 2015

An Ordinary Death / En almindelig død

In a
short intense visit a bluebottle flies frantically around my rooms on
a dark November night bumping into the even darker eyes of the
windows and my one hanging lamp. It expires on the floor some 15
minutes later as the first sounds of the bass from a party at the inn
across the road manages to make its way into my inner ear filled with
the fluid the head cold caused. Though inhibited in movement due to
the abnormal pressure behind it the eardrum manages to pass on some
reminiscent bars of a country and western song which my mind of
course completes with the notes I cannot hear (it's
not difficult filling out the blanks in a c&w construction)
and I hurry up to close
the window.

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Books

Parallels Published

Yettobenamedfreepress has published a book of my parallel haiku-ish - or based - verse.

Parallels Published

Parallels by Johannes S. H. Bjerg is now available from Createspace.

Parallels is a unique take on English Language Haiku. The poems are formatted side by side leaving the reader a choice, to read the pieces as a complete poem or as fragments of poems, each adding to the other. On first read the book may appear as a surrealist work, but after careful study Bjerg's humanity shines through. A must for haiku lovers. A brilliant example of the evolution of short-verse.